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There's no need to "trust" Decentraleyes; all of their code is open-source.
Same with Cookie AutoDelete.
Privacy Possum as well.
Actually I just started using a new extension that works slightly differently. It's called Privacy Possum and is made by one of the devs behind privacy badger. Instead of blocking fingerprinting and other tracking cookies, it intentionally feeds them corrupted data. Link to the GitHub with a better explanation for interested people: https://github.com/cowlicks/privacypossum
> Is this related to PrivacyBadger at all?
The only relationship is the word "privacy" and an animal name.
>If I get PP should I remove PB?
Privacy Badger & Privacy Possum do two entirely different things, so simultaneously running both isn't gonna be an issue.
Privacy Possum is Privacy Badger on steroids
Their Github also addresses your question along with what makes it different and what it adds: https://github.com/cowlicks/privacypossum
> Privacy Badger is another privacy focused browser extension maintained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. I worked for the EFF on the project full time for 6 months, and found that it's current privacy benefits to be limited. Adding new privacy protections was difficult, or impossible with the current architecture. And the project maintainers were not interested in fixing these issues.
Privacy Possum has a better defense against fingerprinting among other things. On the addon's GitHub page the creator explains in more detail the differences between the two.
>Go for Privacy Possum over Privacy Badger as it offers more options as well as stronger protection against fingerprinting. > >More info can be found over at: https://github.com/cowlicks/privacypossum
Thanks for the tip.
Privacy badger isn’t needed if you’re using ublock origin
Privacy possum can replace canvas defender. It does the same thing plus a little more (use the test the creator gives here )
Smart HTTPS if you really want to (works a little differently than https everywhere)
uMatrix if you want a middle ground between ublock origin and noScript
I don't know what those are but if I had to guess, "Canvas Defender" is probably a thing that detects canvas fingerprinting. Canvas fingerprinting is usually use in conjunction with many other browser fingerprinting vectors. The more vectors the more unique your fingerprint is. So Privacy Possum (PP) doesn't do detection of individual vectors. It detects when a script attempts to touch many of these vectors at once. Which looks like accessing a bunch of esoteric API's. This is a very weird thing for normal code to do, but it is what fingerprinting code does. So we detect that. More info is here:
You can read about it here. I can't comment on the practical value these features add over Privacy Badger. It sounds like the EFF wasn't terribly concerned about them.
They compliment each other, as is somewhat explained here. Badger (theoretically) finds trackers that uBlock Origin may have missed, while Possum blocks other kinds of trackers entirely.
I'd also recommend Decentraleyes, I haven't run into any problems with it, and it seems to be relatively effective.
Just keep in mind the more privacy extensions you have, the more likely it is you'll run into issues and the harder it will be to troubleshoot.
A voler essere proprio puntigliosi, anche alcune funzioni di Privacy Possum sono ridondanti se usato con uBlock in modalità avanzata o uMatrix, ma lo consiglio lo stesso perché ha alcune funzioni che invece non sono coperte (più info qui), per il resto non credo ci sia altro.
P.S.: Dato che immagino usi Firefox, ti consiglio anche di impostare "privacy.firstparty.isolate" su "true" da "about:config", che rende i cookie leggibili solo dai siti da cui li hai ottenuti e non da altri (in pratica è come usare un container diverso, come quelli di "Firefox Multi-account Containers", su ogni sito). Sappi però che la prima volta che lo attivi sarà effettuato il logout automatico da tutti i siti, perché vengono cancellati tutti i cookie precedentemente accumulati.
Edit: Odio l'editor dei commenti del nuovo Reddit, che a volte si mangia quello che scrivo.
Privacy Possum is also good for messing up tracking data. If you can't block it you can at least report so much weird shit that your footprint is not valuable.
> Wenn man ublock im Easy mode nutzt noch privacy badger als Erweiterung hinzufügen.
Privacy Possum ist in diesem Zusammenhang noch erwähnenswert.
>Why not Privacy Badger?
Privacy Badger is another privacy focused browser extension maintained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. I worked for the EFF on the project full time for 6 months, and found that its current privacy benefits to be limited. Adding new privacy protections was difficult, or impossible with the current architecture. And the project maintainers were not interested in fixing these issues.
Comparisons with other anti-tracking projects can be found here.
along with what others have suggested, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/localcdn-fork-of-decentraleyes/ instead of Decentraleyes, and https://github.com/cowlicks/privacypossum instead of privacy badger
May I introduce both of you to Privacy Possum? Made by a former EFF worker who worked on Privacy Badger, Privacy Possum takes a whole new approach on dealing with trackers.
Making the reading effort for the team: > Why not Privacy Badger? > >Privacy Badger is another privacy focused browser extension maintained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. I worked for the EFF on the project full time for 6 months, and found that it's current privacy benefits to be limited. Adding new privacy protections was difficult, or impossible with the current architecture. And the project maintainers were not interested in fixing these issues.
https://github.com/cowlicks/privacypossum#why-not-privacy-badger
I can only recommend:
Temporary containers: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabcontainer/
Only as a 3rd-party JS blocker: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/javascript-firewall/
Lot of good "about:config" prefs (you can google them)
Lot of tiny JS customized scripts (you can google them)
DNSCrypt working at OS level.
Here you can find a good technical review about PrivacyBadger. It was made by the Privacy Possum Dev, which worked at PrivacyBadger. In brief, nope, I don't like PrivacyBadger: https://github.com/cowlicks/privacypossum
Decentraleyes: Nowadays you have two versions at AMO. But nope, I can't see a really need for this kind of add-ons.
You should use Facebook container, Privacy possum and Ublock Origin in my opinion. More about why Privacy possum here. Facebook container will compartmentalize cookies but nothing else. This way Facebook, or any third party, can still fingerprint your browser. Privacy possum will try to fake any fingerprinting. uBlock origin will block adds and any other unwanted requests. Facebook container will compartmentalize all Facebook cookies with the rest of the web.
I had never heard of it either. Seems like one person who worked on Privacy Badger for 6 months left to make Privacy Possum. They don’t really give too much details about the short comings of privacy badger from what I could find (and I’m not a fan of the tone used in the write up)
https://github.com/cowlicks/privacypossum/blob/master/README.md#why-not-privacy-badger
Seems like a totally different product to be honest. Privacy badger is about dynamically looking for trackers. There’s set list. Where this blocks certain things universally:
https://github.com/cowlicks/privacypossum/blob/master/README.md#current-features
I don’t really feel like I need to add it. Between built in Firefox protection, ublock, and privacy badger, I don’t want to add another thing to the mix without a clear value add.
Nice! However, I'd like to recommend some things.
I would go with Privacy Possum instead of Privacy Badger. You can read more about why privacy is better here. you can also read more in detail from here
I'm assuming you're talking about the 5-mo hiatus between Jan 23rd - Jul 5th, this year : https://github.com/cowlicks/privacypossum/commits/master
But as homeboy said, it's actively being updated.
You really should look into Privacy Possum. It is maintained by an ex Privacy Badger developer, who started the project because they found Privacy Badger to be insufficient when it comes to blocking/obscuring trackers.
> https://github.com/cowlicks/privacypossum#why-not-privacy-badger
Seems like yesterday . .
It's now self-educating, so there goes a lot of that "difficult to add new privacy protections" thing.
Depend on what you want to achieve. Ghacks is more based on anti fingerprint and security when the other one is more security based. I'm personally using the ghacks template and it work perfectly fine with the auto updater so no need to check it every time to update manually.
If you want to mitigate tracker, you should use uBlock Origin, uMatrix or NoScript (I prefer uMatrix since you have more control), Cookie AutoDelete, CanvasBlocker, Privacy Possum, Decentraleyes.
Few addons you can add more: CSS Exfill, HTTPZ, Smart Referrer, Temporary Containers, Chameleon, Dark Reader (Only if you like to make your website dark, it's also open source).
There is an extension called Privacy Possum (available for Firefox and Chrome) that performs similarly as Privacy Badger, and additionally, falsifies data back to the trackers; so sites relying on trackers, such as diep.io, will not break. It is made by one of the former developers of Privacy Badger.
Privacy Possum blocks quite a few things and obfuscates others.
Blocks cookies that let trackers uniquely identify you across websites.
Blocks refer headers that reveal your browsing location.
Blocks etag tracking which leverages browser caching to uniquely identify you.
Blocks browser fingerprinting which tracks the inherent uniqueness of your browser.
For a more in depth look, check out https://github.com/cowlicks/privacypossum
Privacy Possum is better than Privacy.
It's created by one of the ex-devs who worked on Privacy Badger but he found it to be lacking in certain ways when it came to security and features. Privacy Possum adds more control, blocks more content to protect you and it's actively maintained by the dev.
Doesn’t privacy badger do the same thing? It sees if a script tracks you then starts blocking cookies then the whole thing.
Yes sorry I mistyped that. uMatrix is an alternative to noScript depending on what you want.
It seems that Privacy Possum already prevents fingerprinting
It's a matter of preference, really. Privacy Possum is made by one of the developers of Privacy Badger, and is a fork of it with some improvements made:
> Privacy Badger is another privacy focused browser extension maintained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. I worked for the EFF on the project full time for 6 months, and found that it's current privacy benefits to be limited. Adding new privacy protections was difficult, or impossible with the current architecture. And the project maintainers were not interested in fixing these issues.